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The Nicholson Memorial Library System

The Nicholson Memorial Library System is funded and operated as a department of the City of Garland, Texas.

From its modest beginnings in a former bank building, the Library has grown to a City Department with five modern buildings and more than 430,000 holdings.

The Nicholson Memorial Library System offers:

• Wide variety of books and other materials available for loan
• Reference books, newspapers and magazines for use in the Library
• Central Library Reference, Business, Law, Genealogy, State and Federal Documents, and Periodicals Research Collections
• Computers for public use, with Internet access, online databases, indexes, educational software, and basic office applications software
• Automated catalog at the Library, or through the Library Web Page to check your patron record, look up the status of a book, reserve or renew materials.
• Interlibrary Loan (Library can borrow a book from another library for you)
• Children’s programs from toddler age through teenage
• Educational programs for adults

Visit online: http://ipac.nmls.lib.tx.us:8080/

For a list of events and story times and access to databases - for library patrons that may be more useful than regular search engine - go to: http://www.nmls.lib.tx.us.

The Performing Arts Complex

The Patty Granville Arts Center provides two elegant proscenium theatres with seating for 720 and 200. The Main auditorium features a 55 foot fly loft with a counterweight system.

The Arts Complex also includes the Plaza Theatre which is located at 521 W. State Street on the Square in downtown Garland. The Plaza Theatre has seating for 350. All three theatres have computerized lighting systems and state of the art technology.

The Atrium at the Granville Arts Center is a 6,500 square foot ballroom that will accommodate up to 500 people seated for a dinner. The ballroom is encased in glass on two sides and opens onto a beautiful outdoor courtyard. The luxurious glass-lined lobby covers more than 3,100 square feet. The Atrium provides an elegant setting for banquets, receptions, weddings, trade shows, exhibits and conventions.

The Granville Arts Center is open seven days a week and has advance bookings scheduled through 2004.

The Theatres at the Granville Arts Center, The Atrium at the Granville Arts Center, the Plaza Theatre, and the Pace House are rental facilities which all civic, community and commercial organizations have the opportunity to utilize.

For more information call: Atrium Rental Line: 972-205-3981, Granville Arts Center: 972-205-2780.

Art Events in Garland: www.garlandarts.com

Parks and Recreation Department

The Garland Parks and Recreation Department provides a broad range of recreational programs, classes and fun opportunities through a park system that includes over 2,500 acres of park land and award-winning park facilities.

Available to the public are five recreation centers, two senior citizen centers, four swimming pools, a 13-court tennis center with pro shop, 40 playgrounds, 73 athletic fields, four group picnic pavilions, a marina, and more than 20 miles of trails.

Whether it’s splashing in the waves at Surf and Swim Wave Pool, ballroom dancing at the Garland Senior Activity Center, guided nature tours at the Spring Creek Forest Preserve, jazzercise classes at Audubon Recreation Center, sailboarding on Lake Ray Hubbard at Windsurf Bay Park, adult softball leagues at Carter Softball Complex, or Special Olympic sports through our Therapeutic Recreation Program, try us for your family’s leisure needs.

For information on Garland’s parks or programs, call 972-205-2750.

Garland ISD

Located in one of the fastest growing areas of Dallas County, Garland ISD extends from the Dallas city limits, northeast to the county line and serves the communities of Garland, Rowlett, and Sachse.

With a student enrollment of over 55,000 students. GISD is currently the fourth largest school district in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex, and is thirteenth largest district in the state of Texas.

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